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Antimatter is live: a milestone we believed in long before it had a name. At OneRagtime, we were early believers from day one: writing the first check into Hivenet’s Seed round (July 2022), and into Policloud’s Pre-Seed (April 2025) when it was just a vision on paper. What convinced us then still convinces us now: David Gurle’s vision, track record, and unique ability to build from first principles. Hivenet and Policloud (🇫🇷 France 2030 laureate) have joined forces with Data Factory to become Antimatter. Antimatter is the the world’s first distributed neocloud for AI inference, vertically integrating energy, infrastructure and software. A genuinely new infrastructure: built to go anywhere, powered by existing energy, with data sovereignty embedded from day one. Training built the models. Inference runs them, billions of times a day across copilots, agents, and real-time systems. It requires infrastructure closer to users, faster to deploy, built where energy exists. Antimatter is that infrastructure : 👉 Sovereign compute: Policloud 👉 Distributed orchestration: Hivenet 👉 Energy: Data Factory Much more to come : Antimatter is securing €300M in debt financing to deploy its first 100 PoliCloud units, representing 40,000 GPUs and 3.6+ exaFLOPS across Europe, Asia, Middle East and the US. We strongly believe this is exactly the kind of company to build now. And this is why early stage VC matters more than ever in AI: value is created at the beginning, before consensus. Huge congratulations to David Gurle, Richard Esteve and Richard DÉTENTE for bringing this vision to life. And welcome to Richard Esteve and Richard DÉTENTE to the OneRagtime entrepreneurs family. Huge kudos to the incredible Antimatter team: Bastien Vidal, Queenie Chan, Guillaume Goualard, Nishka Hemrajh, Sébastien Perret, Romain Barbier, Delphine Seguin. You built under constraints that would have stopped most teams. To our co-investors Global Ventures, SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, and Inria: proud to stand alongside you on this journey. To Pierre-Henri Chappaz and the Rothschild & Co team: thank you for your trusted advisory on this strategic transaction. To the advisors who helped shape the path: Stuart Riley, Basil M., John Killian, Gaspard Gantzer thank you. And a special thank you to the OneRagtime team who carried this conviction internally from day one: Stephanie Hospital, Maël Röhrig, Justine Roux, Emma VERON-DURAND. Finally, to our investors, the OneRagtime community, thank you for trusting us and backing our early-stage convictions. In the AI era, supporting founders early, before consensus, is not the risky path. It is the only way to build the next generation of global leaders. Welcome to a new chapter. 🚀🚀🚀 🔗 antimatter.com #Antimatter #AIInfrastructure #NeoCloud #SovereignAI #AIInference #DistributedComputing #FrenchTech #OneRagtime